You'll love Barkley Sound for sure. Great to explore with kayaks after you find a snug anchorage. Desolation Sound and the inlets up the inside passage are also great off season cruising. The factory just put another matching cupboard door on to finish the excluded bar fridge and we find those shelves are an almost essential addition. All our dry and canned goods are catagorized in plastic tubs with lids and these are labelled so we can slide what we need in and out of any of the kitchen cabinets. As for the 12 Volt freezer/cooler we had the factory add 12 V outlets below the seat that lifts to access the lower berth, below the kitchen table at the rear of the helm outboard "armrest", and in the cockpit. We simply leave the freezer plugged in at the bottom of the stairs normally, and if we are using that lower berth for sleeping, move it to the cockpit overnight, but it is quite quiet and could just go below the kitchen table also. We don't miss the bar fridge at all. We keep rotating freezer packs through the icebox in the fridge, or the freezer if there is room, and pre chill a few beverages with the vegetables we keep in the picnic cooler under the counter, outside the cabin door. The main fridge is plenty big enough for anything else requiring temperature control. If you do manage to get them to custom design a better wardrobe and storage area in the forward berth sans sink, we'd sure love to see pics and may be interested in purchasing another set of components to get the local cabinet maker to replace our set-up with CAD drawn and fabricated pieces that would fit properly, rather than re-invent the wheel. The solar panel has no problem keeping up with our two person electrical demands, even in winter with the furnace going and the long hours of evening reading or movies. You will love this boat. Nobody does it better than Ranger/Cutwater.
